Let’s be very clear: the Democrats lost this election because they ignored the justified anger of working class America and became the defenders of a rigged economic and political system. By Bernie Sanders Nov 12, 2024 the Boston Globe The results of the 2024 election have confirmed a reality that is too frequently […]
Making sense of Trump’s enduring appeal requires examining how market forces have gradually hollowed out democratic promise, creating the conditions for authoritarian alternatives to flourish. By Peter Bloom Nov 12, 2024 Common Dreams As Donald Trump has won a historic landslide to once again reclaim the U.S. presidency, the conventional narrative has focused heavily on […]
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence. By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 6 In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair […]
Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. By CHRIS HEDGES 22July, 2024 […]
Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump. By CHRIS HEDGES 14 July The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian […]
Pro-Israel forces in the U.S. are trying their best to throw sand in the wheels of justice with threats of new sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it requested Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants. By Medea Benjamin Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court when he grilled Secretary of […]